Description: "Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.
Brief description: Michael Taylor is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. His first book, The Interest, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Review Quotes: Michael Taylor offers an elegantly written, compellingly readable account of the 'culture war between the guardians of orthodoxy and the agents of change.' . . . The result, Mr. Taylor writes in his fine book, was a decadeslong 'culture war . . . over humanity itself.'-- "Wall Street Journal"